Olympic star Gabby Thomas took to social media to ask followers for his or her recommendation on disturbing encounters she has just lately skilled in airports. In a video posted to TikTok on Tuesday (Jan. 28), the 28-year-old shared that “middle-aged males” have made touring a nightmare for her.
Thomas additionally stated that the boys have been appearing “aggressive and hostile” as properly. “I would like some recommendation proper now as a result of I worry I’m being stalked and I genuinely don’t know what to do or who to go to,” Thomas stated.
“At this level, each time that I journey, I’m afraid that these males — it’s three to 6 of them, middle-aged — are going to indicate up and harass me.”
Thomas, the recipient of the gold medal within the ladies’s 200m remaining eventually 12 months’s Paris Olympics, defined that the boys seem in a number of cities to ask for her autograph. Nevertheless, she stated there’s been “like 40 of them.” Thomas claimed that in addition they present up exterior of the airport and at her gate contained in the terminal.
“They present up both on the entrance door of the airport, on the right concourse or they present up at my gate, which implies they’ve flight tickets they usually get previous safety,” she informed followers.
“What scares me is that they have my flight info. I don’t know in the event that they’re hacking me, however they get actually hostile and aggressive if I say no.”
Thomas then stated she’s modified all of her on-line passwords to regain some form of privateness. She additionally said that the boys have been confrontational along with her boyfriend as properly, former Yale College soccer participant Spencer McManes.
“Do I am going to airport safety?” she requested within the clip. “It’s, like, a multi-city factor, so I can’t simply go to the Austin police as a result of they’re not in Austin proper now. I don’t know the place these folks dwell.”
Thomas ended the submit with how a lot she dislikes feeling unsafe whereas touring.